Special Collections and Archives Contact information: Duane G. Meyer Library [email protected] Missouri State University http://library.missouristate.edu/archives/ Springfield, MO 65897 417.836.5428 Descriptive Inventory / Manuscript Register Collection Title: Theatre and Dance Department Collection Collection Number: RG 4/9 Dates: 1910-Present (Bulk 1940s-Present) Volume: 29 cubic feet Provenance: The collection was acquired mainly in 2004 and in 2006. It was processed in 2006 by Shannon Western, with additional material added in 2014 and later. Copyright: This collection may be protected from unauthorized copying by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code). Access: The collection is unrestricted. Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be obtained from the Department of Special Collections and Archives. Citations should be as follows: Identification of the item, box number, Theatre and Dance Department Collection [RG 4/9], Department of Special Collections and Archives, Missouri State University. Digital Access: A selection from this collection has been digitized and is available online: http://purl.missouristate.edu/library/archives/DigitalCollections/MSUTheatreDance Biographical / Historical Sketch In the early years of the school, plays were performed at Missouri State University (then State Normal School and later Southwest Missouri State Teachers College), but not as a part of any formal department. The senior class did a play each spring, and the Coburn Players, an outside organization, performed here during the summers. It wasn’t until 1915 that the first class in theatre was offered to students, and until 1965, theatre classes were a part of the Department of English and Speech. Theatre became a part of the Speech and Theatre Department in 1965, and the Theatre and Dance Department was established during a 1984 reorganization. At that time, Speech was split into both the Department of Communication and the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Dance, which prior to 1980 was a part of the Health and Physical Education Department, was included in the newly organized department. Productions performed by the Theatre and Dance Department have included a variety of formats, such as musicals, operas, one acts, interpreters/readers theatre, USO 1 tours, Tent Theatre productions, variety shows, and dance performances. Tent Theatre (plays and musicals performed outdoors under a tent each summer) began in 1963 as an alternative to the non-air-conditioned Carrington Auditorium. Even though air conditioning was added to the theater, however, Tent Theatre still continues as a campus tradition. NOTE: The information above is taken from the following: • Landon, Donald D. Daring to Excel: The First 100 Years of Southwest Missouri State University. Southwest Missouri State University, 2004. Scope and Content The bulk of the collection was transferred from the Theatre and Dance Department in 2004 and 2006. Additional materials gathered by the Library were incorporated into the holdings. More recently acquired materials may also be housed temporarily with the unprocessed record group materials. The information spans 1910 to present. The collection is divided into six series, as outlined below. Series I: Productions: Materials from the various productions put on by the Theatre and Dance Department, including programs, fliers, photographs, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. Series II: One Acts: Materials relating to One Act productions (or “World Drama Series” productions), including programs and photographs. Series III: Tent Theatre: Materials from the summer Tent Theatre productions, such as programs and photographs. Series IV: Subject Files: Information relating to theatre and to the Theatre and Dance Department, such as season brochures, magazines, and Convocations Series fliers. Series V: Negatives: Film negatives removed from their corresponding folders in earlier series. Negatives too large to fit in 35mm sleeves were placed in envelopes, as noted in the box list. • NOTE: Separation sheets for this series indicate negatives as being located in Box 7 but are now located in Box 9. Series VI: Oversized: This series contains large items pulled from other series. A separation sheet for each item will be found in the original location. Series VII: Audio/Visual: Materials of an audio/visual nature, such as VHS cassettes, ¾” cassettes, DVDs, and audio cassettes. Series VIII: Slides: Photographic slides, kept mainly in original storage boxes. The vast majority are slides taken of MSU productions. 2 Series IX: Photo Albums: Photo albums, primarily relating to Tent Theatre but also of events such as Dr. Byrne Blackwood’s retirement. Series X: Scrapbooks: Scrapbooks composed mainly of newspaper clippings but include some photographs and other items. Some cover various productions through certain years while others cover only Tent Theatre or USO tours. Related materials: • M006 – Robert Gilmore Collection. • M012 – Howard Orms Collection. • A-04-1999 – Leslie Irene Coger Collection. (unprocessed as of 2/2014) 3 NOTE: This collection was processed in 2006. Later accessions will be listed in the appropriate series (below), but may be filed in later boxes. Note the specific Box number when requesting the materials. Series I: Productions Box 1 360°: Spring Dance Concert 2001 1 Accelerando 1997 1 The Adventures of Harlequin 1966 1 Aesop's Falables 1976 1 After the Fall 1972 1 Agnes of God 1985 1 Ah, Wilderness! 1962 1 Ah, Wilderness! 1988 1 Albert Herring 1979 1 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 1958 1 All My Sons 1950 1 Ambition Facing West 2006 1 And the Beats Go On 1985 1 Andre's Mother 1991 1 Androcles and the Lion 1957 1 Androcles and the Lion 1970 1 Angel Street 1946 1 Another Antigone 1990 1 Antigone 1960 1 Anything Goes -- USO Tour 1972 1 Apple of His Eye 1947 1 Arkansaw Bear 1996 7 Art in Motion: Spring Dance Concert 2009 1 As You Like It 1982 1 As You Like It 1992 1 Assassins 1999 1 Audubon 1977 1 The Bacchae 2000 1 The Barber of Seville 1965 1 Beauty and the Beast 1986 1 The Beaux Stratagem 1986 7 The Beaux Stratagem 2011 1 Becket 1966 1 Beguiled Again 2005 1 Berkeley Square 1946 1 The Birds 1995 1 Blood Wedding 1970 1 Blue Horses 1992 1 Bluebeard's Castle 1971 1 The Brave Little Tailor 1978 1 Brigadoon 1954 1 The Broken Trap 1991 1 Bus Stop 1990 1 Butley 1979 1 Cabaret 1970 7 Cabaret 2012 1 The Caine Mutiny Court Martial 1957 1 Camino Real 1966 1 Carmen 1974 1 Carnival 1967 1 Carousel 1994 1 Cavalleria Rusticana 1971 1 The Cave Dwellers 1967 1 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 1989 1 The Chalk Garden 1958 7 Changing Shades: A Fall Dance Concert 2009 1 The Cherry Orchard 1970 1 The Cherry Orchard 1995 1 Chicago 1992 1 Children of a Lesser God 1986 7 The Children's Hour 2013 1 The Chinese Wall 1968 1 A Chorus Line 1985 1 A Chorus Line 2006 1 A Christmas Carol 1957 1 Cicada Dance 2000 1 Cinderella 1954 1 Cloud Nine 1996 1 The Clown That Ran Away 1960 1 The Cold Christ 1987 1 Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean 1989 1 Communication in the Dance 1963 1 Company 1975 1 A Company of Wayward Saints 1981 1 Conestoga Stories 1996 1 The Conference of the Birds 1993 1 The Constant Wife 1956 1 The Consul 1978 1 Cosi Fan Tutte 1980 1 Country Wife 1971 1 A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking 1983 7 The Cradle Will Rock 2010 1 Crazy for You 2003 1 The Crucible 1990 1 The Curious Savage 1955 1 Damn Yankees 1998 1 Dance Theatre '89 1989 1 Dancing at Lughnasa 1995 1 Danse Masquerade 1989 1 Dark of the Moon 1996 1 The Daughter of the Regiment n.d. 1 Daughters 1985 1 A Day in the Death of Joe Egg 1982 1 Dear Brutus 1955 1 Death of a Salesman 1954 1 Deathtrap 1983 1 A Delicate Balance 1975 1 Detective Story 1954 1 Diamond Studs 1984 1 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 2 Die Fledermaus 1977 2 Die Walküre 1973 2 Diffraction: Fall Dance Concert 2000 2 The Dining Room 1987 2 The Diviners 1990 2 The Dock Brief 1990 2 Dorian Gray 1983 2 Down in the Valley 1964 2 Down in the Valley 1976 2 Dragon, Dreams, and Magic Beans 1980 2 The Duchess of Malfi 1974 2 Education is a Riot 1971 2 Eleemosynary 1993 2 The Elephant Man 1982 2 The Elves and the Shoemaker 1961 2 Emotion: An Evening of Dance 2000 2 The Emperor's Nightengale 1963 2 Enemy of the People 1993 2 Equus 1981 2 The Eumenides 2004 7 Evangeline Drowning 2010 2 An Evening with Capote 1990 2 The Everything Factory 1974 2 Exposé: Fall Dance Concert 1999 2 A Faggot in the Morning n.d. 2 Fall Dance Concert 2001 2 Fall Dance Concert n.d. 2 Fall Studio Dance Concert 1990 2 Family Portrait 1949 7 Fault Lines: Spring Dance Concert 2010 2 Faust 1961 2 A Few People Who Have Witnessed the Signs of the Apocalypse 1992 2 Fifth of July 1983 2 Finian's Rainbow 1960 2 Finian's Rainbow -- USO Tour 1961 2 Finian's Rainbow -- USO Tour Program Photos 1960-1961 2 Five Minutes to Morning 1984 2 The Flagger 1984 2 A Flea in Her Ear 1969 2 A Flea in Her Ear 1997 2 Folio Follies 1947 2 Folio Follies 1959 2 Folio Follies 1960 2 Folio Follies 1961 2 Folio Follies 1962 2 Folio Follies 1963 2 Folio Follies 1964 2 Folio Follies 1965 2 Folio Follies 1966 2 Folio Follies 1967 2 Folio Follies 1968 2 Follies 1997 2 Footfalls: Fall Dance Concert 1986 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide… When the Rainbow is 7 2012 Enuf 2 The Foreigner 1986-1987 2 Forgotten Laughter 1986 2 The Forgotten Ones: Spring Dance Concert 1990 2 Forward Motion: Spring Dance Concert 2005 2 Found in the Garden: Fragments of Shrapnel 2000 2 The Four Corners Café 1992 2 The Four-Poster 1956 2 Getting Married 1983 2 Getting Out 1982 2 The Ghost of Mr.